Joshua Young

Qingquan Ma, Jianan Gao, Botamina Moussa, Joshua Young, Mengqiang Zhao, Wen Zhang. 2023. “Electrosorption, desorption, and oxidation of perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids (PFCAs) via MXene-based electrocatalytic membranes.” ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces, vol. 15, no. 24, pp. 29149--29159.

Michael Woodcox, Joshua Young, Manuel Smeu. 2023. “Modified Born method for modeling melting temperature using ab initio molecular dynamics.” Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.

Ganesh Gudavalli, Mahesh Nepal, Joshua Young, Manuel Smeu, Tara Dhakal. 2023. “Effect of a Ti layer on the growth of binder-free carbon nanotubes on Cu foil and their performance as lithium ion battery anodes.” Energy Advances.

Qingquan Ma, Jianan Gao, Botamina Moussa, Joshua Young, Mengqiang Zhao, Wen Zhang. 2023. “Electrosorption, Desorption, and Oxidation of Perfluoroalkyl Carboxylic Acids (PFCAs) via MXene-Based Electrocatalytic Membranes.” .

Qingquan Ma, Joshua Young, Jianan Gao, Yi Tao, Wen Zhang. “Nanoscale Hydrophobicity and Electrochemical Mapping Provides Insights into Facet Dependent Silver Nanoparticle Dissolution.” Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters.

Jianan Gao, Qingquan Ma, Joshua Young, John Crittenden, Wen Zhang. 2023. “Decoupling Electron- and Phase-Transfer Processes to Enhance Electrochemical Nitrate-to-Ammonia Conversion by Blending Hydrophobic PTFE Nanoparticles within the Electrocatalyst Layer.” Advanced Energy Materials.

Robert Shepard, Scott Brennan, Taylor R Juran, Joshua Young, Manuel Smeu. 2022. “Ab initio determination of a simultaneous dual-ion charging mechanism for Ni 0.25 Mn 0.75 O 2 through redox reactions of Ni 2+/Ni 4+ and O 2-/O.” Journal of Materials Chemistry A.

Mo Li, Olamide Omisakin, Joshua Young. 2022. “Effect of chemical substitution and external strain on phase stability and ferroelectricity in two dimensional M 2 CT 2 MXenes.” Nanoscale, vol. 14, no. 18, pp. 6970--6980.

Qingquan Ma, Wen Zhang, Joshua Young. 2022. “Effect of single atom Platinum (Pt) doping and facet dependent on the electronic structure and light absorption of Lanthanum Titanium Oxide (La2Ti2O7): A Density Functional Theory study.” Surface Science, vol. 715, pp. 121949.

Qingquan Ma, Joshua Young, Sagnik Basuray, Guangming Chen, Jianan Gao, Nan Yao, Wen Zhang. 2022. “Elucidating facet dependent electronic and electrochemical properties of Cu2O nanocrystals using AFM/SCEM and DFT.” Nano Today, vol. 45, pp. 101538.

Haizheng Zhuang, Safa Alzaim, Skywalker Li, El Mostafa Benchafia, Joshua Young, Nuggehalli Ravindra, Zafar Iqbal, Xianqin Wang. 2022. “Synthesis and Stabilization of Cubic Gauche Polynitrogen under Radio-Frequency Plasma.” Chemistry of Materials, vol. 34, no. 10, pp. 4712.

Safa Alzaim, Zhiyi Wu, El Mostafa Benchafia, Joshua Young, Xianqin Wang. 2021. “A practical way to enhance the synthesis of N 8- from an N 3- precursor, studied by both computational and experimental methods.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 23, no. 29, pp. 15713--15718.

Emine S Karaman, Somenath Mitra, Joshua Young. 2021. “Computational investigation of enhanced properties in functionalized carbon nanotube doped polyvinyl alcohol gel electrolyte systems.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 23, no. 37, pp. 21286--21294.

Maocong Hu, Zhiyi Wu, Zhenhua Yao, Joshua Young, Langli Luo, Yingge Du, Chongmin Wang, Zafar Iqbal, Xianqin Wang. 2021. “N8 stabilized single-atom Pd for highly selective hydrogenation of acetylene.” Journal of Catalysis, vol. 395, pp. 46--53.

Chen Chen, Qingquan Ma, Fangzhou Liu, Jianan Gao, Xinyang Li, Shaobin Sun, Hong Yao, Changqing Liu, Joshua Young, Wen Zhang. 2021. “Photocatalytically reductive defluorination of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) using Pt/La2Ti2O7 nanoplates: Experimental and DFT assessment.” Journal of Hazardous Materials, vol. 419, pp. 126452.

Joshua Young, Manuel Smeu. 2021. “Preventing Electrolyte Decomposition on a Ca Metal Electrode Interface Using an Artificial Solid-Electrolyte Interphase.” Advanced Theory and Simulations, vol. 4, no. 8, pp. 2100018.

Zhenhua Yao, Zhiyi Wu, Maocong Hu, Safa Alzaim, Joshua Young, Jinchao Dong, Jinfa Chang, Haizheng Zhuang, El Mostafa Benchafia, Yang Yang, others. 2021. “Rational Synthesis of Polymeric Nitrogen N8--with Ultraviolet Irradiation and Its Oxygen Reduction Reaction Mechanism Study with In Situ Shell-Isolated Nanoparticle-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy.” ACS Catalysis, vol. 11, no. 21, pp. 13034--13040.

Sean M Oliver, Joshua Young, Sergiy Krylyuk, Thomas L Reinecke, Albert V Davydov, Patrick M Vora. 2020. “Valley phenomena in the candidate phase change material WSe 2 (1-x) Te 2x.” Communications Physics, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1--10.

Sean M. Oliver, Joshua Young, Sergiy Krylyuk, Thomas L. Reinecke, Albert V. Davydov, Patrick M. Vora. 2020. “Valley phenomena in the candidate phase change material WSe2(1-x)Te2x.” Communications Physics, vol. 3, no. 1.

Michael Woodcox, Joshua Young, Manuel Smeu. 2020. “Ab initio investigation of the temperature-dependent elastic properties of Bi, Te and Cu.” Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, vol. 32, no. 48.

Michael Woodcox, Joshua Young, Manuel Smeu. 2019. “Ab initio investigation of the elastic properties of bismuth-based alloys.” Physical Review B, vol. 100, no. 10, pp. 104105.

Joshua Young, Peter M Kulick, Taylor R Juran, Manuel Smeu. 2019. “Comparative Study of Ethylene Carbonate-Based Electrolyte Decomposition at Li, Ca, and Al Anode Interfaces.” ACS Applied Energy Materials, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 1676--1684.

Lili Liu, Joshua Young, Manuel Smeu, P Shiv Halasyamani. 2018. “Ba4B8TeO19: A UV Nonlinear Optical Material.” Inorganic chemistry, vol. 57, no. 8, pp. 4771--4776.

Taylor R Juran, Joshua Young, Manuel Smeu. 2018. “Density Functional Theory Modeling of MnO2 Polymorphs as Cathodes for Multivalent Ion Batteries.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 122, no. 16, pp. 8788--8795.

Joshua Young, James M Rondinelli. 2018. “Inducing spontaneous electric polarizations in double perovskite iodide superlattices for ferroelectric photovoltaic materials.” Physical Review Materials, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 065406.

Joshua Young, Thomas L Reinecke. 2017. “Controlling the H to T′ structural phase transition via chalcogen substitution in MoTe 2 monolayers.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 19, no. 47, pp. 31874--31882.

Gaoyang Gou, Joshua Young, Xian Liu, James M Rondinelli. 2017. “Interplay of cation ordering and ferroelectricity in perovskite tin iodides: designing a polar halide perovskite for photovoltaic applications.” Inorganic chemistry, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 26--32.

Prasanna V Balachandran, Joshua Young, Turab Lookman, James M Rondinelli. 2017. “Learning from data to design functional materials without inversion symmetry.” Nature Communications, vol. 8, pp. 14282.

Hongwei Yu, Joshua Young, Hongping Wu, Weiguo Zhang, James M Rondinelli, P Shiv Halasyamani. 2017. “M4Mg4 (P2O7) 3 (M= K, Rb): Structural Engineering of Pyrophosphates for Nonlinear Optical Applications.” Chemistry of Materials, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 1845--1855.

T Thao Tran, Joshua Young, James M Rondinelli, P Shiv Halasyamani. 2017. “Mixed-metal carbonate fluorides as deep-ultraviolet nonlinear optical materials.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 139, no. 3, pp. 1285--1295.

Hongwei Yu, Joshua Young, Hongping Wu, Weiguo Zhang, James M Rondinelli, Shiv Halasyamani. 2017. “Nonlinear Optical Materials: The Next-Generation of Nonlinear Optical Materials: Rb3Ba3Li2Al4B6O20F—Synthesis, Characterization, and Crystal Growth (Advanced Optical Materials 23/2017).” Advanced Optical Materials, vol. 5, no. 23.

Joshua Young, Eun Ju Moon, Debangshu Mukherjee, Greg Stone, Venkatraman Gopalan, Nasim Alem, Steven J May, James M Rondinelli. 2017. “Polar Oxides without Inversion Symmetry through Vacancy and Chemical Order.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 139, no. 7, pp. 2833--2841.

Hongwei Yu, Joshua Young, Hongping Wu, Weiguo Zhang, James M Rondinelli, Shiv Halasyamani. 2017. “The Next-Generation of Nonlinear Optical Materials: Rb3Ba3Li2Al4B6O20F—Synthesis, Characterization, and Crystal Growth.” Advanced Optical Materials, vol. 5, no. 23, pp. 1700840.

Hongwei Yu, Weiguo Zhang, Joshua Young, James M Rondinelli, P Shiv Halasyamani. 2016. “Bidenticity-enhanced second harmonic generation from Pb chelation in Pb3Mg3TeP2O14.” J. Am. Chem. Soc, vol. 138, no. 1, pp. 88--91.

Joshua Young, Parth Lalkiya, James M Rondinelli. 2016. “Design of noncentrosymmetric perovskites from centric and acentric basic building units.” Journal of Materials Chemistry C, vol. 4, no. 18, pp. 4016--4027.

Hongwei Yu, Joshua Young, Hongping Wu, Weiguo Zhang, James M Rondinelli, P Shiv Halasyamani. 2016. “Electronic, crystal chemistry, and nonlinear optical property relationships in the dugganite A3B3CD2O14 family.” J. Am. Chem. Soc, vol. 138, no. 14, pp. 4984--4989.

Joshua Young, James M Rondinelli. 2016. “Octahedral rotation preferences in perovskite iodides and bromides.” J. Phys. Chem. Lett, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 918--922.

Constantinos C Stoumpos, Duyen H Cao, Daniel J Clark, Joshua Young, James M Rondinelli, Joon I Jang, Joseph T Hupp, Mercouri G Kanatzidis. 2016. “Ruddlesden--Popper Hybrid Lead Iodide Perovskite 2D Homologous Semiconductors.” Chemistry of Materials, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 2852--2867.

Joshua Young, Alessandro Stroppa, Silvia Picozzi, James M Rondinelli. 2015. “Anharmonic lattice interactions in improper ferroelectrics for multiferroic design.” Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, vol. 27, no. 28, pp. 283202.

Joshua Young, James M Rondinelli. 2015. “Crystal structure and electronic properties of bulk and thin film brownmillerite oxides.” Physical Review B, vol. 92, no. 17, pp. 174111.

Hongwei Yu, Weiguo Zhang, Joshua Young, James M Rondinelli, P Shiv Halasyamani. 2015. “Design and Synthesis of the Beryllium-Free Deep-Ultraviolet Nonlinear Optical Material Ba3 (ZnB5O10) PO4.” Advanced Materials, vol. 27, no. 45, pp. 7380--7385.

Hongwei Yu, Weiguo Zhang, Joshua Young, James M Rondinelli, P Shiv Halasyamani. 2015. “Optical Materials: Design and Synthesis of the Beryllium-Free Deep-Ultraviolet Nonlinear Optical Material Ba3 (ZnB5O10) PO4 (Adv. Mater. 45/2015).” Advanced Materials, vol. 27, no. 45, pp. 7379--7379.

Xiaoyu Dong, Qun Jing, Yunjing Shi, Zhihua Yang, Shilie Pan, Kenneth R Poeppelmeier, Joshua Young, James M Rondinelli. 2015. “Pb2Ba3 (BO3) 3Cl: A material with large SHG enhancement activated by Pb-chelated BO3 groups.” Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 137, no. 29, pp. 9417--9422.

Joshua Young, Alessandro Stroppa, Silvia Picozzi, James M Rondinelli. 2015. “Tuning the ferroelectric polarization in AA′ MnWO 6 double perovskites through A cation substitution.” Dalton Transactions, vol. 44, no. 23, pp. 10644--10653.

Joshua Young, James M Rondinelli. 2014. “Improper ferroelectricity and piezoelectric responses in rhombohedral (A, A′) B 2 O 6 perovskite oxides.” Physical Review B, vol. 89, no. 17, pp. 174110.

Joshua Young, James M Rondinelli. 2013. “Atomic Scale Design of Polar Perovskite Oxides without Second-Order Jahn--Teller Ions.” Chemistry of Materials, vol. 25, no. 22, pp. 4545--4550.